On 20/03/11 03:01 AM, dave boland wrote: > Ok, this is the second attempt to use the live cd, and I still get the > "ata: SRST failed..." error and then it eventually stops. That's a strange one. Googling for "srst failed" implicates some old SiS motherboards like yours and the most likely solution seems to be to switch the drive jumper to "single mode", as this person did: http://fixunix.com/ubuntu/397814-cant-install-ubuntu-8-04-lts.html Ben